| Drosophila neotestacea | |
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| A Drosophila neotestacea female on the gills of an Agaricus mushroom | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Drosophilidae |
| Subfamily: | Drosophilinae |
| Genus: | Drosophila |
| Subgenus: | Drosophila |
| Species group: | testacea |
| Species: | D. neotestacea
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| Binomial name | |
| Drosophila neotestacea Grimaldi, James, and Jaenike, 1992[1]
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Drosophila neotestacea is a member of the testacea species group of Drosophila.[2] Testacea species are specialist fruit flies that breed on the fruiting bodies of mushrooms. These flies will choose to breed on psychoactive mushrooms such as the Fly Agaric Amanita muscaria.[3] Drosophila neotestacea can be found in temperate regions of North America, ranging from the north eastern United States to western Canada.[4]
- ^ Grimaldi, David; James, Avis C.; Jaenike, John (1992). "Systematics and Modes of Reproductive Isolation in the Holarctic Drosophila testacea Species Group (Diptera: Drosophilidae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 85 (6): 671–685. doi:10.1093/aesa/85.6.671.
- ^ Jaenike, John; Stahlhut, Julie K.; Boelio, Lisa M.; Unckless, Robert L. (2010). "Association between Wolbachia and Spiroplasma within Drosophila neotestacea: an emerging symbiotic mutualism?". Molecular Ecology. 19 (2). US: 414–425. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04448.x. PMID 20002580.
- ^ Jaenike, John (1978). "Host Selection by Mycophagous Drosophila". Ecology. 59 (6): 1286–1288. doi:10.2307/1938245. JSTOR 1938245.
- ^ Jaenike, J.; Unckless, R.; Cockburn, S. N.; Boelio, L. M.; Perlman, S. J. (2010). "Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont". Science. 329 (5988): 212–215. Bibcode:2010Sci...329..212J. doi:10.1126/science.1188235. PMID 20616278. S2CID 206526012.